> Keeping accurate time is a modern thing. Before railroads, you could get along fine with just morning, noon, and night. Then the railroads came along and wanted to keep a schedule. They are largely responsible for time zones.
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That's all well and good for practical matters like farming, where all you really need to know is whether the sun's out and what season is a-comin'. But much of our history, including many innovations throughout history, is shaped by such non-practical (not to say "impractical") concerns as religion.

Time of day was important to a culture that had to pray 3 times a day + bonus prayers on holidays, because they had to make sure they were saying the right prayers at the right times.

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F"even grape juice was invented for religious reasons"B